Lago Blog - Plushcap

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www.getlago.com/blog

Posts YTD

67 ↓ vs 84 last year

Avg Posts/Month

3.8 since 2022

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Start year: 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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Title	Author	Published	Words	HN Pts
How to Build a Powerful Usage-Based Billing System	Finn Lobsien	2025-05-05	1,333	--
Best Practices for Billing Across the EU	--	2025-10-28	1,550	--
What Is The Van Westendorp Pricing Model And How Does It Work?	--	2025-09-15	1,497	--
Subscription Management for B2B SaaS Businesses: Best Practices and Strategies	--	2025-07-22	1,117	--
Pricing and Billing Guide: All the terms you need to know	--	2025-05-29	1,476	--
Understanding the Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model for SaaS Businesses	--	2025-06-18	1,314	--
7 Must-Have Features in Modern AI Billing Infrastructure	--	2025-05-23	1,024	--
How to Evaluate a Billing System? What Questions You Should Ask	--	2025-09-08	851	--
Should your SaaS company use usage-based pricing?	--	2025-05-29	1,160	--
Launch Week III Day 2: Put a ring on it: Partner Billing	--	2025-05-15	137	--
Entitlements and billing should be the same system	--	2025-09-10	1,113	--
What is enterprise billing and how does it work?	--	2025-08-26	1,121	--
Why DeepSeek had to be open-source (and why it won't defeat OpenAI)	--	2025-05-29	871	--
Top Billing Platforms Compared: Which One Fits Your Business?	--	2025-05-29	967	--
Launch Week IV Day 1: Alerts and Budget Limits	--	2025-06-16	260	--
Launch Week III Day 3: Record manual and partial payments in Lago	--	2025-05-15	94	--
Prepaid Credits vs Progressive Billing for Usage-Based Billing	--	2025-05-29	895	--
Launch Week III Day 5: Effortless Docker deployment in a single command	--	2025-05-15	82	--
Is Y Combinator worth it from Europe? 4 European founders answer	--	2025-05-29	1,339	--
7 AI Pricing Models and Which to Use for Profitable Growth	--	2025-06-20	2,590	--
The ultimate Salesforce package for effortless billing	--	2025-05-30	416	--
The Full Playbook: How to Design Usage-Based Pricing Models	--	2025-10-07	2,175	--
I reviewed every snack in our office kitchen	--	2025-05-29	1,701	--
Top 7 Alternatives to Recurly for usage-based Billing	--	2025-08-12	1,941	--
Introducing Progressive Billing: Usage-Based Billing Done Right	--	2025-05-29	669	--
OpenAI shouldn't do credits in ChatGPT	--	2025-05-29	722	--
What is events-based billing and how does it work?	--	2025-08-11	1,603	--
AI Billing That Works: Smart Solutions for Complex Revenue Models	--	2025-05-29	1,158	--
What are open-source billing systems and which should you choose?	--	2025-11-14	1,464	--
Fixing Latency Issues in Webflow Using Relume	--	2025-05-30	850	--
What are feature entitlements and how do they work?	--	2025-09-01	1,515	--
What is usage-based revenue recognition and how does it work?	--	2025-06-26	916	--
How open can Stripe be?	--	2025-05-29	1,349	--
Should you build or buy usage-based billing?	--	2025-09-25	1,356	--
What is billing compliance and how does it work?	--	2025-09-19	996	--
Dynamic Pricing: Capture Usage for Variable Rates	--	2024-11-14	613	--
Role-based access: billing as a workflow	--	2025-05-20	377	--
Launch Week III Day 1: Back to the future with invoice previews	--	2025-05-15	166	--
Top 7 Alternatives to Chargebee for usage-based Billing	--	2025-05-29	1,784	--
Why building a self-hosted SaaS is a headache (and how we make …	--	2025-08-05	1,262	--
Billing Models That Supercharge Tech Company Revenue Growth	--	2025-05-15	1,089	--
Top 7 Alternatives to Stripe Billing for usage-based Billing	--	2025-08-12	1,948	--
How usage-based pricing increases NRR	--	2025-08-18	1,553	--
How to Achieve GDPR Compliance Effectively: A Focus on SaaS Billing Models	--	2025-10-02	1,820	--
How to Monetize Developer Tools with Usage-Based Billing	--	2025-06-02	929	--
What Is Consumption-Based Pricing?	--	2025-09-25	1,019	--
Launch weeks: How to do product marketing for boring products	--	2025-09-15	931	--
Billing shouldn't just be PDF generation	--	2025-08-12	653	--
5 Powerful Ways to Launch Usage-Based Billing That Works	--	2025-08-04	1,294	--
AI Billing Infrastructure: What's required and how to build it	--	2025-06-17	1,177	--
How Lago Uses Lago: Tackling Our Own Billing Nightmares	--	2025-05-29	1,089	--
The Ultimate Guide to Implementing Usage-Based Billing Models	--	2025-06-13	1,231	--
Launch Week IV Day 5: Pricing Group Keys	--	2025-06-20	192	--
Launch Week IV Day 2: Billing Activity Logs	--	2025-06-17	129	--
SaaS Billing Best Practices: How to Optimize Your B2B Billing Process	--	2025-07-22	1,267	--
How do entitlements work in SaaS?	--	2025-10-23	914	--
How we signed a world-famous AI company with a HackerNews post	--	2025-05-29	1,132	--
How to Monetize AI Agents	Finn Lobsien	2025-06-02	980	--
What is Metered Billing?	--	2025-08-19	1,671	--
Finding The Right Billing System for SaaS: Complete Buyer's Guide	--	2025-09-01	1,381	--
Pricing psychology: SaaS pricing strategies that make users buy	--	2025-08-01	1,392	--
Launch Week III Day 4: Crypto payments are now available	--	2025-05-29	77	--
Usage-Based Billing Secrets That Drive Serious Revenue Growth	--	2025-05-29	1,380	--
Finding the Right Billing Model: Pricing and Monetization Models for Tech Companies	Finn Lobsien	2025-05-14	1,007	--
Bookings vs. Billings in SaaS: Complete Guide	--	2025-08-25	4,708	--
Choosing the Best RevenueCat Alternative in 2025	--	2025-07-31	1,181	--
8 SaaS usage-based pricing examples from successful SaaS companies	--	2025-07-03	1,882	--
6 Proven Pricing Models for AI SaaS (and How to Build Them)	--	2025-05-28	890	--
The How and Why of Metered Billing for Cloud Infrastructure	--	2025-08-25	1,336	--
Beyond Subscriptions: Powerful Billing Models for Modern Tech	--	2025-05-29	1,405	--
Common misconceptions about using open-source products	--	2025-11-14	916	--
Why QA matters: Demystifying the 'QA-Free' philosophy	--	2025-05-29	1,159	--
7 Proven Usage-Based Pricing Tactics for SaaS and AI	--	2025-06-02	1,048	--
What is value-based pricing and how does it work?	--	2025-08-11	1,595	--
How Mistral committed to Lago in 17 days and went to prod …	--	2025-05-29	1,045	--
Launch Week IV Day 3: Lago Ã Avalara Integration — End Tax …	--	2025-06-18	133	--
Telecom billing: Best practices and systems to use	--	2025-08-18	1,423	--
What is freemium pricing in SaaS and how does it work?	--	2025-08-06	1,403	--
How to choose or build a billing system in the EU	--	2025-10-06	2,212	--
How enterprise pricing actually works (incl. examples)	--	2025-10-23	1,556	--
The Complete Guide to Accrued Revenue for SaaS Companies	--	2025-08-25	2,526	--
Top 7 Alternatives to Zuora for usage-based Billing	--	2025-08-12	2,145	--
What's the best billing system for GovTech companies?	--	2025-09-19	1,166	--
Introducing the future of Prepaid Credits: real-time burndown and top-up rules	--	2025-05-20	359	--
Monetize your AI product faster with Lago billing engine	--	2025-11-14	1,209	--
Why you shouldn't be your own ICP (we aren't)	--	2025-05-29	943	--
Why we still build with Ruby in 2025	--	2025-08-18	690	--
How SaaS License Management Works	--	2025-10-23	1,388	--
SaaS Billing Systems That Handle Complex Pricing Models	--	2025-05-29	1,297	--
What is revenue forecasting and how does it work?	--	2025-09-08	1,546	--
What are hybrid pricing models and how do they work?	--	2025-08-12	1,165	--
How to monetize APIs: Billing for your API product	--	2025-06-13	617	--
What is outcome-based pricing and how does it work?	--	2025-06-13	740	--
Full playbook: How to architect billing systems to power usage-based pricing	--	2025-08-05	2,167	--
What are credit-based pricing models and how do they work?	--	2025-06-13	1,393	--
Air gapped billing system: What it is, how it works and how …	--	2025-09-19	1,098	--
Lago Manifesto: Building billing shouldn't suck (for neither business nor eng)	--	2025-08-12	1,219	--
Self-hosted billing: When it works and how to do it	--	2025-08-11	1,348	--
The how and why of usage-based billing for SaaS	--	2025-05-29	1,106	--
Launch Week IV Day 4: Limit prepaid credits to specific charges	--	2025-06-19	46	--
How to Monetize Your API with Usage-Based Billing	Finn Lobsien	2025-06-02	878	--
Outcome-Based Pricing Explained: Definition, Applications, Benefits, and Challenges	Finn Lobsien	2025-06-12	1,798	--
IFRS 15 Explained: Key Points for Tech Billing	Finn Lobsien	2025-07-03	1,125	--
The tech stack we use to build Lago	Finn Lobsien	2022-08-04	653	--
Open-source licensing and why Lago chose AGPLv3	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-30	1,375	--
The 5 reasons why we chose open source	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-20	621	--
What is consumption-based billing?	Finn Lobsien	2025-06-19	669	--
Generating PDF invoices using Lago	Finn Lobsien	2022-07-28	835	--
How 1NCE scaled global IoT billing with Lago	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-17	515	--
Sales compensation software	Finn Lobsien	2022-06-20	1,805	--
How Porter scaled self-serve billing with Lago	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-17	372	--
Why Cost can outweigh Performance in DevTools	Finn Lobsien	2024-06-26	1,270	--
Comparison of the best CPQ software	Finn Lobsien	2022-06-13	1,493	--
Learnings from 30 years in Go-To-Market: a chat with Jim Stoneham	Finn Lobsien	2023-05-24	1,740	--
How we got into YC, pre-product, pre-revenue	Finn Lobsien	2022-11-11	2,378	--
Why Heroku-like pricing models are hard to build	Finn Lobsien	2022-08-08	837	--
Pricing, my only growth hack at Qonto	Anh-Tho Chuong	2022-04-15	1,696	--
Why Flipside Crypto's first and last billing system is Lago	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-17	507	--
8 things to consider when choosing your billing system	Finn Lobsien	2023-06-28	1,299	--
Unpacking the B2B Payment Process	Finn Lobsien	2024-04-22	1,225	--
How we ship fast: our framework	Finn Lobsien	2022-11-08	1,512	--
Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-16	1,999	--
Strategies for pricing software products in a down market	Finn Lobsien	2023-08-24	1,057	--
Traveling to the North Pole is like creating a startup	Finn Lobsien	2022-09-15	842	--
Payment Gateways	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-23	690	--
Sales Operations, Monetization and Pricing: a chat with Meghan Gill	Finn Lobsien	2023-08-04	1,657	--
Why Billing Engineers in Fintechs should be paid more	Finn Lobsien	2023-09-20	1,299	--
'Shape Up' Ryan Singer's advice to YC companies	Finn Lobsien	2023-05-30	1,328	--
VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick	Anh-Tho Chuong	2022-04-25	923	--
Launch Week II Day 2: Track overdue balance and prepare for dunning …	Finn Lobsien	2024-07-23	531	--
How soon should you have a design system?	Finn Lobsien	2022-09-28	817	--
Post-mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL	Finn Lobsien	2022-12-15	3,008	--
Why billing is not just 'Build' or 'Buy'	Finn Lobsien	2022-08-17	1,005	--
AI Billing Explained: Automate and Optimize Invoices	Finn Lobsien	2025-07-30	1,300	--
Moving to the US after YC: SF, NYC... or Miami?	Finn Lobsien	2022-12-08	1,020	--
Understanding Billing System Software in Tech	Finn Lobsien	2025-07-03	1,038	--
"Building billing? It sucks!"—Why Arcee built with Lago instead	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-18	494	--
The 777‐point Hacker News hit that got us 000 star	Finn Lobsien	2023-11-24	1,159	--
7 billing models you need to know if you work on pricing	Finn Lobsien	2025-09-30	1,437	--
6 steps to build a usage-based billing system	Finn Lobsien	2022-09-08	974	--
Does Stripe use Stripe Billing to bill its customers?	Finn Lobsien	2022-08-29	1,383	--
How we got our first 1000 Github stars for our Open Source …	Finn Lobsien	2022-12-15	1,182	--
Clone Slack's fair per-seat pricing in a simple way	Finn Lobsien	2022-09-30	942	--
Why companies should consider alpha and beta programs	Finn Lobsien	2023-10-29	1,559	--
Authorization & Role-based Access Control (RBAC)	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-03	459	--
Bill your customers in their timezone, not yours	Finn Lobsien	2023-01-24	403	--
Why is calculating Stripe MRR so difficult?	Finn Lobsien	2023-10-17	2,055	--
Open Source Billing Tools: Customize Your Revenue Engine	Finn Lobsien	2025-05-08	1,509	--
CPQ Software: Our Guide to Configure, Price, and Quote	Finn Lobsien	2022-05-27	1,156	--
Pricing, billing & open source: A chat with Algolia's co-founder	Finn Lobsien	2022-09-14	971	--
3 traps for unwary technical founders	Anh-Tho Chuong	2022-10-05	1,105	--
Lessons on monetization, pricing, and PMF: a chat with Elena Verna	Finn Lobsien	2022-12-07	938	--
1046 upvotes: The ProductHunt playbook that made Lago product of the month	Finn Lobsien	2023-07-25	871	--
Europe needs to catch up on pivot culture	Finn Lobsien	2022-07-08	1,362	--
The best billing solutions for AI products and services	Finn Lobsien	2025-09-30	961	--
Grace period to adjust invoice usage	Finn Lobsien	2023-01-24	458	--
Lune’s journey to perfecting API pricing (and saving the planet) with Lago	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-19	485	--
Pricing AI: A Unit-Based Problem?	Finn Lobsien	2024-07-15	1,935	--
ORMs are criticized for the wrong reasons	Finn Lobsien	2023-06-21	1,264	--
Refunds, Coupons & Credit Notes: why they are different	Finn Lobsien	2023-08-16	953	--
Using ClickHouse to scale your events engine	Finn Lobsien	2024-02-24	1,541	--
Introducing the feature Fintechs were asking for	Finn Lobsien	2023-04-20	744	--
How to deal with massive unpaid AI bills	Finn Lobsien	2024-06-27	467	--
Timezones: survival tips for engineers	Finn Lobsien	2023-07-03	937	--
Engineers interviewing non-engineers: a guide to spotting red flags	Finn Lobsien	2022-12-15	1,160	--
Engineers need open source to end their billing nightmares	Finn Lobsien	2022-06-01	2,442	--
Launch Week II Day 1: Accounting Integrations	Finn Lobsien	2024-07-22	381	--
Why Cerebrium "doesn't even think about billing anymore"	Finn Lobsien	2026-01-19	858	--
Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-14	1,988	--
When building AI chat is actually hard (how and why we built …	Raffi Sarkissian	2026-02-26	1,424	--
700+ customers in year one: How Blacksmith built scalable usage-based billing for …	Finn Lobsien	2026-04-08	516	--
Embedded software is the biggest growth opportunity for open source	Finn Lobsien	2026-03-26	1,250	--
Lago Embedded: White-label, open-source billing	Finn Lobsien	2026-03-12	802	--
Why Replit's $9B Valuation Looks Cheap	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-24	1,516	--
Why PayPal uses Lago for complex billing at enterprise scale	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-13	498	--
Self-Hosted vs. Cloud Billing: Data Sovereignty for Regulated Industries	Finn Lobsien	2026-02-23	2,486	--
Vibe-coding platforms monetize. Their users can't.	Finn Lobsien	2026-03-11	917	--
5 years of founder grind	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-20	2,211	--
AI Billing is (mostly) token plumbing	Raffi Sarkissian	2026-05-26	1,317	--
Anthropic took the unfair bullet for ending finger-based pricing	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-05-26	1,600	--
Payment Orchestration: Multi-PSP Routing and Failover	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-17	1,934	--
Chargebee Alternative? Why Engineering-Led Teams Choose Lago for Usage-Based Billing	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-06-26	1,839	--
The AI margin cliff	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-06-19	1,064	--
Prepaid Credit API Implementation Guide	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-30	3,270	--
Billing SDK Guide for Developers 2026	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-30	3,417	--
Orb Is Being Acquired by Adyen. Here's What That Means If You're …	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-06-29	1,822	--
REST API Design Guide for Billing: Best Practices 2026	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-30	4,052	--
Proration in SaaS Billing: Calculations and Edge Cases	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,121	--
Churn Prediction Models: A Technical Guide for SaaS	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-03	3,200	--
Billing Disaster Recovery: Backup, RPO/RTO, and Failover	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-09	1,975	--
Rating Engine Architecture: From Raw Events to Billable Amounts	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-03	3,161	--
Multi-Entity Billing: A Guide for Global SaaS	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-13	2,115	--
Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments Without Losing Customers	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,257	--
RevOps for SaaS: Building a Revenue Operations Function in 2026	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-03	2,967	--
Real-Time Billing: Stream Processing, Event Sourcing, CQRS	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-17	1,892	--
Audit-Grade Billing Accuracy: Requirements and Testing	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-09	1,747	--
Billing Audit Trails: Immutable Logs, Compliance, Forensics	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-17	1,891	--
Most Common Mistakes in AI Pricing (and How to Avoid Them)	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-01-26	772	--
How to set pricing metrics for usage-based and AI SaaS	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-01-26	907	--
How Billing Drives Product-Led Growth: From Free Tier to Enterprise	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,082	--
What Is the Most Flexible Billing System?	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-01-26	819	--
Subscription Analytics: Cohort Analysis, LTV, and Retention Metrics	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-03	3,503	--
Billing Tax Automation: Sales Tax, VAT, and Global Compliance	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,102	--
Billing Observability: Monitoring, Alerts, and Metrics for Revenue Operations	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-13	1,226	--
Fintech Billing: Multi-Currency, Real-Time Settlement, and Compliance	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,738	--
How to Bill for GPU Compute: A Technical Guide for AI Infrastructure …	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-20	1,418	--
KYC and AML for Fintech Billing: Implementation Guide	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-09	1,840	--
Billing System Migration: The Complete Playbook for Replacing Legacy Systems	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-13	1,502	--
Billing System Scalability: Horizontal Scaling, Sharding, Multi-Tenancy	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-17	1,854	--
SaaS Cancellation Flows: Reduce Churn at the Exit Point	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-17	2,000	--
Event Ingestion Architecture: Building Reliable Metering Pipelines	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-03	1,953	--
Dimensional Pricing in Cloud Infrastructure: A Technical Framework	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-09	1,806	--
How to Choose a Billing Platform: A Buyer's Framework for 2026	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	2,243	--
Billing Webhook Reliability: Idempotency and Retries	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-03-09	2,003	--
How to Run Pricing Experiments Without Breaking Your Billing System	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-20	1,342	--
Revenue Leakage in SaaS: How Billing Gaps Cost 1-5% of ARR	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-23	1,891	--
Marketplace Billing: Revenue Splits, Partner Payouts, and Multi-Party Invoicing	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-02-20	1,652	--
Enterprise SaaS Billing: What You Actually Need (2026)	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-06	806	--
Removing humans from the loop has become a status symbol.	Raffi Sarkissian	2026-07-20	951	--
Lago vs Metronome: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise Usage-Billing Specialist Now Inside …	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-21	1,347	--
Lago vs Orb: Open-Source Billing vs a Billing Specialist Now Inside Adyen	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-21	1,384	--
We killed our motion design job	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-21	1,466	--
Lago vs Stripe Billing: Feature Comparison, Pricing, and Open-Source Advantages	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-20	1,019	--
AI API Billing: Token-Based Pricing for LLM Products	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-24	1,520	--
Agent SDK: bill the dollar cost of LLM calls, margin built in	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-21	296	--
Why Stripe may pay $10B for a router everyone is building	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-27	728	--
By 2027, every AI company will need a billing engineer. Most don't …	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-29	999	--
Lago vs Chargebee: Open-Source Billing vs a Subscription-First Suite	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-02	1,203	--
Lago vs Zuora: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise RevRec Suite	Anh-Tho Chuong	2026-07-02	1,150	--

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